Professors Expertise on Kunming Attacks and Venezuelan Protests Sought by International Media

Dru
Gladney’s expertise on ethnic minorities in China, following attacks in Kunming,
and Miguel Tinker Salas’ expertise on Venezuelan politics and protests have
provided insight into recent international events.

Prof.
Dru Gladney, an expert on Chinese politics and ethnic minorities in China, was
interviewed about yesterday’s mass knife attack in Kunming, China, and on the
likelihood of the attackers being Uighurs. This morning National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” interviewed him for the
story “China Blames Muslim Separatists For Deadly Attacks.” He was also quoted
in the Los Angeles Times andCanada’s Globe and Mail, among others.

As protests
increase in Venezuela, Prof. Miguel Tinker Salas, an expert in Venezuelan
politics and history, provided material for the National Geographic Daily News story “Behind the Headlines:
Venezuela’s Crisis: Oil has long bee the country’s great stabilizer – and
destabilizer,” published March 2. Currently in Caracas, he has been interviewed
about the current unrest by KPCC Radio’s “Take
Two,” BBC Brasil, and the Real News Network, Panorama (Venezuela),
among other news outlets.

Gladney, a professor of anthropology, is an expert on Chinese
politics, ethnic and cultural nationalism, and ethnic minorities in China, with
a focus on the people and cultures along the modern Silk Road. He is the author
of several books on China’s ethnic minorities including Dislocating China:
Muslims, Minorities, and Other Subaltern Subjects (2004), Muslim
Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic (1991, 2nd ed., 1996)
and Ethnic Identity in China: The Making of a Muslim Minority Nationality
(1998).

Tinker Salas, the Arango Professor in Latin American History and
professor of Chincano/a Latino/a Studies at Pomona, is the author of The
Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture and Citizenship in Venezuela (2009,
Spanish ed., GALAC, 2014) and the forthcoming Venezuela: What Everyone
Needs to Know (Oxford University
Press, 2014). He is alsothe co-editor Venezuela, Hugo Chávez and the Decline of an Exceptional Democracy
(with Steve Ellner, Rowman and Littlefield, 2007). In 2009, he received the
Mexican Club de Periodistas’ International Media Prize for political commentary
and critical perspective on electronic media.